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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01

The Omaha Vord tells the following
story
A very bright young man of the name
of Braggiotti came here not long ago to
accept position in the Union Pacific
general offices, bringing letter from Il
mutual friend introducing him to Judge
Savage and Mrs. Savage. The morning
of his arrival he stepped into the Mil
lard hotel telegraph office aud wrote a
message to his Eastern friends as fol-
lows:
arrived all right. Have not seen the
Savages yet"
The interesting young woman who
guards the Western Union destinies at
that particular hotel looked up at Mr..
Braggiotti with well advertised con-
tempt. "You are evidently just from
the East" she said ''Most people who
come here from the East expect to see
savages roaming around the streets.
That's about as much as they know.
Bless your soul. I've been here three
years, and the only Indian I've seen is
the wooden one on Tenth street. After
you've lived in Omaha n week or two
you'll have more sense. Seventy-fiye
cen s, please"
Mr.. Braggiotti was too weak to ex-
plain. He paid the money and staggor-
ed into the outer atmosphere.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
The Church Bell Fell into the Organ.
The Syracuse HernM SAYS

The Syracuse Herald saws
A few minutes after 7 o'clock at night
Sexton Dodge took hold of the bellrope
IN st. Paul's Cathedral to ring for even
ing service. Prof. Fuller had just open
ed the great organ for preliminary prac-
tice. Sexton Dodge pulled the rope
and struck the bell twice, when sudden
ly the rope eased up and flying missile
struck the sexton in the eve. At the
same instant he heard the timbers
crack above him, and. without looking
up, he ran out of the belfry and down
the circular staircase inside the steeple.
A piece OF iron weighing 100 pounds
clattered down after him. Before he
reached the foot of the stairway there
was another crash, and the 3,000-pound
bell lay bottom up in the middle of the
great organ Prof Fuller had also
heard the first crash, and, jumping from
his seat, ran out into the aisle, covered
with dust: A young lady who had
stood beside him sought safety on the
other side OF the altar. In few min
utes the Cathedral was filed with peO-
pie, and in the excitement the bewilder-
ed sexton Was caught by a couple of po-
hcemen and dragged across several
seats and out of the supposed danger.
The bell i'll its fall had broken great
timbers as though they had been pipe
stems, and the finer mechanism of the
organ was crushed like straws
An examination this morning disclos-
ed the fact that an inch bolt, on which
the weight of the bell rested while
swinging, had been broken off at the
the point where the thread began. The
centre of the bolt appeared to be rotten,
and only the shell had supported the
great weight of the bell. 1t was won
der that the bolt had not broken before.
When the bolt broke the bell yoke slip
ped out of the trunnion and the ton and
a half of metal crashed through the first
floor, struck the heavy timbers on the
floor below, bounded off and dropped
down into the organ. There the bell
lies to-day, covered with wreckage.
The inner pipes and pneumatic action
are broken into small pieces. 1t was
said that when the organ was built the
builder protested against placing it
under the bell, but it was urged that
there was no danger of the bell ever fall
ing.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
The Leading Live Stock Authority.

A striking figure on the thoroughfare
of New York, is Miss Middle Morgan,
tall, angular, dressed in woman's clothes,
yet with mans taste as to cut and ma
terial, and wearing smile as kindly as
her figure looss severe. She never fails
to wrest from all strangers the tribute
of the inquiry, "Who is she!' The
answer is as surprising as well could be
imagined, for she was once master Tor
mistress) of the Kings stud in-Italy,
and is now the best posted authority on
live stock in America. She is not only
interesting, she is remarkable. Those
who are 50 fortunate as to know her
apart from her business speak of her us
both brilliant, charming and feminine
to degree, and in her vocation-the
most difficult, in some phases, for Il
woman to undertake-she exacts admir-
alton as well as respect. Whenever l
hear the empty head argue that lovely
woman would not be respected if she
entered politics, trade or certain of the
professions, L always think of Miss
Morgan going day after day, year in and
year out, up to the cattle pens by the
river and out upon the stock farms and
making the wisest men in that line for
get her sex in the admiration of her
genius.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
Just as Good as an Order.

During the war quantity of person
al property belonging to q resident of
Washington was seized and confscated
by the United States. For many years
the original owner made repeated at
tempts to secure an order for its restora-
ton from the Quartcrmaster who had
charge of it. But he was obdurate and
insisted that it should be restored only
through an act of Congress. Still the
attorney for the claimant persisted, and
again he wrote to Quartermaster-Ge Gen
eral Meigs for an order of restoration.
This was about the seventh attempt,
and the officer had grown impatient.
He wrote an exceedingly vigorous reply,
in which he emphatically refused to do
as requested. The handwriting was
frightful. The attorney saw his chance.
He fastened to his client and, thrust
ing the letter to him, said: 81 have
succeeded at last. Here is the order"
The "order" was taken to the corral.
where the officer in charge recognized
the signature and Mt once turned over
the property.
When General Meigs aeked what had
become of it he was told that it had
been restored ON his order. He saw
his order, and, as he could not read it,
he simply said: 81 do not remember
signing that,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
The Timber Supply.

The Boston Bulletin says: Notwith-
standing the great draw upon the wood
reserves of the country there is no dan
ger of exhaustion at present. New
England is by no means nenuded of its
timber. The great northwestern piner-
les are comparatively uneXhausted.
There is also Wig rous second growth
of white pine in New England, Where
the forests are already yielding between
200, 1000, 900 and 1000, 600 feet of tim
Der annually. Southern pine, although
stripped from the banks of streams flow
ing into the Atlantic, is practically I'M
touched i'll the Gulf States, especially
those bordering on the Mississippi.
The hard wood forests of the Mississippi
basin are still prolific. In Michigan.
particularly the Northern Peninsula. hard
wood is plentiful, maple especially. In
the Pacific coast region the great forests
of fir are practically intact. The forest
capacity of the country is great.
Strange to say, the decimnting element
Of most potence is fire, and not the axes
of mercenary timber spectators.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
A Sharp Trick.

Over year ago widow brought
suit against the elevated road in New
York city for injuring her property.
She has house, which she fitted up
realty after her husband died, and Of
fered it for rent, but nobody would take
it, because the elevated platform obscur-
ed it, and the noise of the trains made II
residence there intolerable The suit
was begun; the house stood empty.
The widows lawyer informed her that
the case would be tried next September.
Last week a gentleman waited upon the
widow and offered to take her house as
a monthly tenant, giving her a few dol
lars more than the rental she had prey
iously asked. The widow gladly accept
ed this tenant, who paid in advance.
Now her lawyer is upbraiding her for
having fallen into trap set by the elc-
waited managers, who are in q position 10
prove that, SO far from her property be
ing injured, it actually brings a higher
rental than ever before.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
A Brave Girl.

Colonel William r. Aylett, of Vir-
ginia, in his speech at Gettysburg, said
"The bravest woman 1 ever saw was Il
Pennsylvania girl, who defie Pickett
whole division, while we marched
through a little town called Greencastle.
She had on United States flag as an
apron, which she deliberately waved up
and down as our columns passed by her,
and dared us to take it from her. And
there was not one man among us who
dared do so. Struck by her courage
and loyalty, Pickett, with hat off, gave
her a military salute, my regiment pre-
scented arms, and we cheered her with a
good old-fashioned rebel yell, which
some of you boys have doubtless he nd.
God bless the true and brave little wo-
man; and she was rs lovely as she was
brave. Would that she were here to-
day that I might, in admiration of her
pluck and truth, grasp the hand of that
splendid and glorious type of American
womanhood. She deserves a place by
the side of those Carthaginian maidens
who cut off their tresses as bowstrings
to send their lovers arrows Missing to
the Roman heart.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01

the gay wet multitude, and they are duly ap
preciative of him, for he is a very good sort
under al circumstances and the beSt-natured
and brightest of cavaliers.
The three Graces run into the water. how
ever, and run well-for wonder. No two
women run alike and few run well. There Is
nothing locomotive in the whole animal king
dom that some one of Them does not manage
to initiate. From the tragic st0rl to the con-
templative hen in hurry, all the varied gaits
are clearly to he found upon the beach, Most
of them run like snipe, the wings close to the
side, the legs straight, and no bending of the
body anywhere. When 4 silver-winged flock
of the latter light n little way down the shore
and skip stiffiy along the sands with that con-
slant and industrious search for nothing in
particular which distinguishes snipe in NOV
ing and women i'll shopping, their resemblance
in motion to the groups of women near them
savors too much of mocking purpose to be en-
tirely matter of chance.
There is nothing striking about the bathing
suits. 1t is not good form to wear war paint
in the water As far as appearances are con-
cerned the dress is quite as conservative, if not
more so, than that of the ballroom. Some of
the figures are striking. One of them is
tremendous girl. She wears cap of blue and
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
A Valuable Sword.

The 81 crossword which the people of
Arizona will soon present to General
Miles will not be ornamented with gems,
save a splendid amethyst ut the end of
the handle. The scabbard will be of
solid gold. One side will be left for the
presentation inscriptions, etc. The
other side will be engraved with the fol
lowing scenes: First, the agency of San
Carlos on the reservation, the Indians
appearing in natural camp life; second
scene, companies of cavalry and infantry
in pursuit of Indians; third, the fight;
fourth, the capture and the Indians
marched to Bowie Station, where Il
train of cars stands i'll waiting for their
reception; and last, Geronimo's head,
with hat on, forming the foot of the
scabbard. The blade is of damascus
steel, on which will be engraved the
name of General Nelson A. Miles, with
scroll-work. The handle or handgrip
will be of white sharks skin braided in
gold. The guard will be of gold and be
emblematic of both cavalry and infantry
At the extreme end of the guard, en-
graved in gold, will be the head of
n tchez, the son of Cochise.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
Gen. JOhnsOn's Resignation.

Referring to the painful scenes among
old army comrades after Sumter was
fired upon, Mrs. Gen. Hancock, in the
story told of her husbands career, says:
''Many conferences were held in our
home in Los Angeles between my hus-
band and the Southern officers, who
were urged by their relatives and friends
to resign their commissions and offer
their services to their own States, as
otherwise they would be regarded as
renegades throughout the South. They
sought the advice of my husband, hop
ing to receive from him some comfort
or encouragement, but he could give
none, and would say to those dear
friends, Armistead, Garnett, Pickett,
and host of others whom he loved: Il
can give you no advice, as | shall not
fight upon the principle of State rights,
but for the Union, whole and undivided,
as do not and will not belong to a conn
try formed of principalities. l cannot
sympathize with you. You must he
guided by your own convictions, and
hope you will make no mistakes
At that time / was i'll San Francisco, and
had occasion to visit the headquarters
of Gen. Albert Sidney johnson, who
was in command on the Pacific coast.
He met me that morning and said, with
tears in his eyes: You are not aware
that Gen. Sumner was among the pas
sengers who arrived ON the steamer this
morning, and who came to me announc-
ed, expecting to catch me in reasonable
intentions. / have not yet seen him,
but l understand that he has been sent
out to relieve me of my command I
replied: General, you are morbidly
sensitive, I think, and hasty in your
conclusions Il hope that L have been,
but why was the Generals name omit
ted in the passenger-list that was sent
by the overland mail If my suspic-
ions are correct, 1 shall at once resign,
and God knows what then. / had in
tended to remain where 1 am, as my
wife is so opposed to my giving up
a certainty for an uncertainty 1t was
soon known that Gen. Johnson had re-
signed"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
THE ANTIQUES.

These are made from bed ticking, faded sofa
cover an old aZy quilt, or anything else that
had no particular value. They look like Indian
squaws ON pilgramage. They wear no stock
ings. If one of them should come within
the luminous circle of an electric light at
night the light would flare up wildly and then
so out.
They disappear, however like the witches in
a spectacle before the fairies come on. The
fairies represent Viewpoints lest circles, for,
despite the supp0sition TO the contrary, bath
ing is very generally INDUCED in. Still, the
crowd in the ocean is remarkably mixed. Two
thirds of it represents the middle class, and
the distinguishing feature of this class is that
its women do not wear stockings. The differ
ence between NarraGansett and Newport in
this respect Is remarkable. At the former
place no woman appears without them. Their
absence at the latter place is unpleasant. A
stockinged limb is coquettish. bare one,
except on occasions, is ugly if not questiona-
bic. Modern fOOtgear has not improved the
symmetry of the female toes, and, however
skillful the chirOpodist may be, he is sure to
leave some signs of his art.
While the fairies in their pretty suits are de-
murely bobbing up and down in the breakers,
the girls of the middle class are doing what
ever their sweet wills suggest. Down the
beach for instance. far back toward the line of
hillOcks, are two girls III bathing suits, one of
gray and the other of blue. They have buried
tlSHtoe1NCo III tiiS sdllu up " lutii NttintS-
They look as if they were growing there. BY
them stands smart dog cart with gray horse
in a silver-mOunted harness. In the cart are
two finely dressed young men, The girls are
pretty but have common faces.
The girls look like twin Sphinxes-frivolous
daughters of that great poem in stone i'll
Egypt's sands. Reich compared humanity to
the Sphinx, saying that while its soul was in
the clouds its body was buried in the earth.
He had no direct reference TO the VOunu ladies
however. Their souls, in aerial mounting,
have stopped and gotten into the cart. One
of them smiles archly at the driver. She is
not immodest. She is no more culpable in
her dress than the blue laws of the Puritani-
cal prohibition State freely permit. And yet
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
A Horrible Story of Vengeance.

A strange story, strongly resembling
the italian poisoning stories of the Mid
die Ages, has been going the rounds i'll
the city of Mexico. A short time ago a
prominent politician, whose name is
mentioned in connection with future
Presidential term, fell suddenly and
mysteriously i'll. At first great secrecy
was observed in regard to the nature OF
his indisposition, but it is now beyond
doubt that he is insane. 1t is main
tanned in some quarters that his disorder
is caused by spinal injury which he
suffered some years ago, but the general
belief leans to another theory, according
to which his insanity is caused by poi
son obtained from plant well known to
the Indians in this country. 1t is mix
ed with food in the shape of powder,
and its effect is to produce acute mental
disorder. Personal vengeance Is as
signed as the motive of the supposed
crime.
The sufferer is much esteemed by
those who, by personal intercourse,
have had the best opportunity of know
ing him. Great sympathy is expressed
for his wife and family.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
Both We're Polite.

The Charleston Ne,oS says: A young
Northern lady visiting in this city some
months ago had a little incident happen
to her which she seemed to take pleas
ure in relating. In crossinga quiet side
street one day vegetable cart drawn
by small donkey and driven by an
aged negro with shining black face and
very white wool, was about to pass at
the same time. AS she hesitated the
donkey was stopped with peremptory
''Woa, Squash Woa, sab, [ tells yo', y
and while she crossed nodding in rec
ognition of the clear passage thus af-
forded her, the venerable darkey took
off his tattered remnant of Il hat and
said with II flourish: 'Pass on, my
missus, pass on; Squash and me, We
allus waits on the ladies'" She was
charmed with this as d sample of the
courtesy of the colored race, and said
Sir Walter Raleigh's gallantry fell far
short of it, inasmuch as it had interested
motives Her hearers were 10th to tell
her that she must look upon this bur
nished Chesterfield not as type but as
a survival, and one which is passing
away to leave no trace behind. With
the general acquisition of the three Rs
and the abolition of h 1adkerchiefs and
the familiar titles OF Daddy" and
"Auntie, the colored race has undoubt-
edly lost much that was picturesquely
polite in manner.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01

service. 1elDapS IL IL the
American climate acting on his English sys-
tem.S James will fall asleep and blow over
someday and break into thousand pieces.
While yen watching James and wishing
he would. another James comes riding by. sit
ting beside his Young mistress. who is driving
on the seat of yellow trap. His hands are in
red gloves and crossed on his lap like small
specimen hams from Cincinnati. He looks
exactly like his fellow on the sand. All
grooms, in fact, are very like sheet of En-
glish postage stamps, identical in appearance
and value. They all Lave cleanly-shayen
Chadband look and they constitute one of the
many present mysteries of the American
social panorama. 1t Is understood, of course,
that from our shirt collars to our tally-hOs,
we import and adopt nothing English unless
it is more awkward and mgainly than our
own home articles; but why we should have
gone to the extent of james is none the less
puZZiing to determine. If MademOiselle and
her young lady Chum take a ride they can in
terchange not one word of confidential gossip
unless the red and capaciOus ear of James re
ceives 1t also If Stanley aud Elsie ride side
by side through the inspiring softness Of the
after glow, no word or igh of tenderness be
tween them can escape the knowledge of the
salaried gooseberry in tops, ON the seat be-
hind, who is fed and found that he may Ger
tainly be on hand when he assuredly is not
wanted. Stanley must either stow him under
the seat or Jolt him OFF or keep discreetly
silent. These are his only courses of action,
and yet the young ladies' Indignantly seek to
know why our young men no longer marry.
James is the cause. James may be simply a
thing. His brains may be hidden in the Inn
ing Of his hat and his relation to the vehicle
be little less than the kingbolt and little
more than TIE pug, but he is there just the
same. and whenever a man feels yeaTning and
alloverish he invariably insists upon an audi-
cncc of only one.
Your beauty of the hop of the night before
comes down to the water. TIE pretty back is
just as straight. though it Is hidden now in
the trim red bathing dress, and the smile she
gives the ocean the same she gave her partner.
She las two girl friends with her ladies born,
with their milk-white teeth and bright New
England faces. The three go hand-in-hand
into the water. There Is not man to accom-
pany them. There are comparatively few men
anyhow The college boy and the dude are
both absent The dude does not swim, lack
ing a cablegram that Wales has put his royal
foot in the royal water, and the college boy is
miles away He shuns Newport. He Is at
Narragansett and the Massachusetts, beaches
in his rowing shirt with the class number on
its breast over the muscles he so obviously
wears. He is there with the pretty girls in
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
LIKE TWIN sPHINxEs.

under those very laws she bends her knee, the
sand parts over right limb, and from knee cap
to toe it is exposed and lies nude and round
and white upon the sand. 1t does not shine.
1t glares, and she knows it. Some young girls
walking by look at her and blush. 1t is no
wonder. The Irritation q, deslabHle progresses.
Finally the driver makes his friend get out,
puts his English ulster upon her, and takes
her for a rafting ride up and down the beach
along the edge of the water. He keeps far he
low the crowd, however. His friend sits down
by the other Sphinx and cleverly enchains her
admiration by periodically pouring sand down
the back of her neck
Only the misses of the aristocracy indulge
in brine. Their elders prefer to lounge pic
tUresquely On their carriage seats and wittily
comment. Albert is the only one of the fami-
" who invariably bathes. Albert is q bIa X
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01

poodle with worsted in
place of hair, who has been
shaved by the landscape
gardener with a lawn
mower. Having caught
sight of himself in a look
ing glass he has very prop
erly gone mad. He has
high times in the water
with a common bulldog
whom he palronizes, while
Dora, a lady King Charles
of his acquaintance, barks
bronchially from an adj
jacent carriage seat as she
anxiously watches him,
fearful that he will get his
d ath of cold. Dora is in
tears, i'll fact, but Albert
does not heed. 1t is her
normal state. James, the
groom, as he stands by the
horses head, also keeps a
sharp eye on Albert. James
is i'll high hat and full liv-
cry, with immaculate
cream cOlored breechcs
andmost carefully brushed
tops. James stands ve'y
straight. He has grown
frightfully brittle since he
was imported and put in
service. Perhaps il il the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01

WHAT are We but coachesl Some of
us slow coaches; some of us are fast
coaches. Our passions are the horses;
and rampant animals, too.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
Three Bottles Cure Catarrh.

ELI RoBBINs, RUnUdn p. O., Columbia Co.,
Pa, says: My daughter had catarrh when
she was five years old, very badly. l saw Dr.
Sages Catarrh Remedy advertised, and pro-
cured bottle for her, and soon saw that IL
helped her; third bottle effected pcr1na-
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01

DR.. NATIONS CURE FOR PILES is guaran-
teed to cure the worst case of piles Price 25
cents At druggists, or mailed [stamps taken
by the
WALTON REMEDY Co., CLEVELAND. Ono
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-01
Wheat i'm Dakota.

Here is a tabulated statement of the
cost of raising 20 acres of wheat on the
George G. Howe farm of 1000 acres, in
Dakota, which is by far the most intel
ligently managed of all the bonanza
farms: